zaman newspaper is a fundamentalist islamic newspaper. and this commercial does not fit the whole subject. they want to change turkey what they want. and this spot is totally wrong and said lies to people. zaman newspaper is not a modern newspaper, as they said, sorry.

The latest comment of the Guest l Fri, 2009-10-30 17:44 drove me to think that this is an off-brief work; actually, an off-brief work will never see the light; furthermore, I think any agency present an off-brief work, will remove it from its archive even; therefore, I made a small search, just to understand what Zaman Newspaper is, since I'm not Turkish neither I have much info about their internal POVs; on Wikipedia, they mention “Zaman is known to be related with the Fethullah Gülen movement* but the movement is not the owner. It is a conservative newspaper which has a moderate Islamic worldview. Zaman, which declares itself as in support of democracy and secularism, is regarded as Islamic, or Islamist, by some sources”
*More & more, Gülen and his movement have won praise from many non-Muslim quarters, with their belief in science, interfaith dialogue and multi-party democracy. They are viewed as modernist and all-embracing Muslims, who can counterbalance extremism in the Muslim world. For instance, Sabrina Tavernise of New York Times has stated that they come from a moderate blend of Islam that is very inclusive.

According to the above, it is clear that there is a slight confusion on the Brand Identity, and where the TVC came to say what the Newspaper want to say; hence, the work is not off-brief, and I'm pretty sure that the agency cracked the brief and came up with the best concept for this campaign.

Again, I'm an outsider here, and I really appreciate if we can get more insights from the Turkish audience/bloggers.

It sometimes feel the most liberter keeping the "nationality" lower base... (just because keeping the religion over all)
an again with the same reason it always feel the biggest thread for the "state" (but for the secular one... It's not that they don't want their own.)